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• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Google Cloud storage offerings bolstered for AI apps

  Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Red Hat CIO Marco Bill on Space Mission, AI Goals, and Tech Outlook

  In an exclusive interview, Red Hat’s CIO tells InformationWeek the company’s collaboration on a space-bound data center is no mere novelty. He also gives advice to CIOs facing budget restraints in the AI age.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  JetBrains, GitHub add coding agents to IDEs

  Coding agents that can take on whole tasks with a natural language prompt are now tied in with widely used IDEs, including a JetBrains free tier.

• April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

  Hammerspace vacuums $100 million in Series B to gear for IPO

  The latest funding round doubles the prior Series A total with new and prior investors in Hammerspace to expand sales and marketing reach, but experts question IPO ambitions.

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  Atlassian Data Center stops multiyear license renewals

  The company confirmed that new on-premises product licenses are now limited to one year as it adds high-security cloud offerings. Users see the writing on the wall.

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• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  Agentspace vs. Rovo: A new battlefront in enterprise search

  Aligning DevOps and business teams using agentic AI prioritizes effective data and knowledge management and prompts fresh enterprise search offerings.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Exploited Windows zero-day addressed on April Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft delivers fixes for 121 vulnerabilities with 11 rated critical this month. Admins will have extra mitigation work to correct three flaws.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Atlassian Rovo pricing shifts amid industry AI struggles

  Atlassian's Rovo, including revamped Search and a new automation Studio, will be built into its cloud products as enterprises grapple with getting AI into production.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google Gemini 2.5 Pro extends on-prem GenAI support

  Google Gemini is the first proprietary frontier model that can be run on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud for privacy- and cost-conscious enterprises.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google Cloud Platform adds WAN and on-premises AI services

  A handful of infrastructure announcements for the Google Cloud Platform debut at Next 2025 including a Cloud WAN service, on-premises Gemini AI and new AI chips.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  AI agents raise stakes in identity and access management

  IT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Dell storage lines get refresh for AI workloads

  Dell Technologies rolls out PowerEdge, ObjectScale and PowerScale hardware updates, alongside new capabilities for the PowerProtect and PowerStore software.

• April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

  OpenTelemetry adapts to AI observability

  A core contributor and governing board member for the CNCF project reflects on how AI is changing observability, programming and business.

• April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

  Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF

  The VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform sheds the Tanzu branding for Kubernetes and adds new capabilities to vDefend, but are prices hikes coming?

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Nasuni taps Veracode's Sam King for storage CEO role

  Sam King, the former CEO of security vendor Veracode, is tasked with leading Nasuni's move from cloud storage to agentic AI data lakes.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world

  The Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems

  Bluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  A visual future: GraphRAG and AI observability

  In the eyes of one CNCF leader, GNNs, knowledge graphs and GraphRAG will boost IT operations and create 3D views of apps and infrastructure.

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  Site reliability engineers weigh MLOps vs. LLMOps

  Some of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting machine learning apps in production carry over to generative AI apps, but not all.

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  SREs map uncharted territory with LLMOps

  Generative AI apps upend longstanding reliability engineering principles, mindsets and skill sets -- how experts weather the disruption.

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Open source AI agent frameworks add enterprise ops polish

  Kagent and Dapr Agents offer connections to cloud-native infrastructure and microservices, taking differing stances on Microsoft's AutoGen.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Charity Majors on AI observability and the future of SRE

  The observability maven reflects on 'Observability 2.0' and urges site reliability engineers to embrace AI agents, despite their perceived threat -- before it's too late.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  VMware dominance remains, despite challengers

  Customers aren't rotating off VMware by Broadcom, despite gripes on pricing and the rise of enterprise virtualization alternatives.

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Storage metadata services for AI apps trending at Nvidia GTC

  Nvidia's GTC show once again places AI applications at center stage, with storage vendors seeing their platforms' metadata capabilities as a key development component.

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Prompt engineering takes shape for devs as agentic AI dawns

  Real-world best practices are emerging at companies such as LinkedIn, Oracle and AWS, and agentic AI is poised to fundamentally alter the day-to-day work of software engineers.

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  GitHub Actions supply chain attack spotlights CI/CD risks

  Experts say a GitHub Actions vulnerability should renew enterprises' attention to securing build pipelines the same way they secure production environments.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Amazon exec: New AWS S3 capabilities highly adopted by users

  AWS Storage VP Andrew Warfield talks about how customers are using the latest feature launches from the Amazon S3 team as part of the vendor's Pi Day 2025 conference.

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  March Patch Tuesday fixes 6 Windows zero-day exploits

  All the vulnerabilities that had been actively exploited in the wild will get resolved quickly by deploying the Windows cumulative update for this month.

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  ServiceNow agentic AI acquisitions set pace for enterprises

  The combination of Moveworks and Cuein has industry analysts looking ahead to the next stage of enterprise agentic AI development and data management.

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  Analysts: IBM-LzLabs suit a cautionary tale for IT buyers

  A U.K. court ruled that an LzLabs subsidiary breached IBM license terms, a reminder to IT orgs to do careful research before choosing a vendor, according to industry watchers.

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  JFrog integrates with Hugging Face, Nvidia; intros JFrog ML

  The partnership aims to give developers a clearer guide on safe models. It also aims to ensure enterprise-grade safety and security with the deployment of open models.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Amazon, Google, Microsoft race for first in quantum computing

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft prioritize quantum computing reliability for future enterprise applications.

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Storage vendors adding data management tools to meet AI needs

  Storage vendors are now developing their own tools and capabilities related to data management tasks within their platforms, as interest in enterprise AI development increases.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  New Relic takes partnership tack for agentic AI

  New Relic users say its collaborative approach to agentic AI, revamped AIOps tools and pricing model will make it easier to explore fresh forms of automation.

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  StorOne update automates storage tiering for data access

  StorOne Data Storage Platform uses AI and ML to automate data between tiers of flash and HDD storage without the need for custom hardware or user intervention in latest release.

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Block storage and Kafka events come to Vast Data Platform

  A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Zero-CVE Chainguard Images gain customization option

  Chainguard opens its container image builder factory to let users mix and match hardened container components while preserving a zero-vulnerability SLA.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances

  Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Users eye LaunchDarkly experiments boost with Houseware buy

  LaunchDarkly customers envision fresh opportunities for app development and business alignment with a new data warehouse option on the back end.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls

  Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Cisco rides the AI boon

  Cisco reported a 9% revenue increase, driven by AI demand. The company plans to launch new AI infrastructure products, focusing on enterprise data center trends.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Docker Inc. CEO swap has analysts anticipating a sale

  Industry watchers see the takeover by a former Oracle exec as the precursor to merging with a broader software development portfolio at a larger company.

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Microsoft plugs two zero-days for February Patch Tuesday

  The company corrects active exploits in vulnerable Windows systems, one of which could give the attacker complete control if successful.

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Cisco launches Smart Switches with AMD DPUs for security

  Cisco introduces the Smart Switch series, as enterprises refresh networks in preparation for running AI models and applications.

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Intel loses AI head Justin Hotard to Nokia

  AI and data center chief Justin Hotard will leave Intel to become Nokia's CEO as the company struggles to regain its footing in the data center market.

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  NetApp adds cheaper options to all-flash block storage line

  An early 2025 catalog refresh includes the expansion of the ASA A-Series, adding to its all-flash block storage with NetApp's OnTap storage OS.

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  DevSecOps platform tucks in API security as AI apps heat up

  Harness merges with its sister company, Traceable, for API security, which has broadening appeal as organizations develop generative and agentic AI applications.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Dynatrace drops dev observability gauntlet for Datadog

  Dynatrace and Datadog both plan to ship live debugging tools as they vie for developer attention in the observability market.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Dynatrace ups AIOps ante with log analytics refresh

  Updates to Dynatrace CoPilot and log analytics for AIOps prompt users to dump other tools, but migrations can be a challenge.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  AMD trims delivery time for MI350

  AMD plans to send samples of the rack-scale AI chip to key customers in the current quarter.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Panzura CloudFS capabilities focus on business continuity

  Panzura's CloudFS hybrid cloud storage platform expands file access speeds and offers a new workload recovery capability without the need for high availability tooling.

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  Intel axes Falcon Shores amid market challenges

  Intel decides its limited resources would be better spent on Falcon Shores' successor, Jaguar Shores.

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  HPE-Juniper deal hits DOJ roadblock

  The Department of Justice sues to block the $14 billion deal. HPE and Juniper call its analysis 'substantially disconnected from market realities.'

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  VMware alternative vendors see 2025 as year to make a mark

  Numerous KVM-derived hypervisors are competing to claim the title of VMware alternative among enterprise customers, but actual adoption rates are still a question.

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  CISO enlists agentic AI reinforcements for SecOps

  AI agents are already in the hands of adversaries. One aerospace CISO has begun to use them to augment his SecOps staff and even the score.

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  Komprise now blocks PII data from accidental AI ingestion

  Enterprises feeding unstructured data into AI models can avoid security leaks with a new PII data detection and quarantining capability in the Komprise data management platform.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  EU, U.S. at odds on AI safety regulations

  The U.S. under the new Trump administration changes course on AI safety, in contrast with the EU, as uncertainty lingers about other Biden-era federal cybersecurity efforts.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Review and predictions for open source software in 2025

  Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to review 2024 and make predictions for 2025.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Backblaze CEO sees open cloud key to AI innovation

  In this Q&A, Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman discusses how the cloud storage vendor has evolved its object storage platform and how an open cloud benefits AI.

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Cybersecurity expertise gaps: More than meets the eye

  An S&P Global analyst charts the past, present and future of SecOps, where demand continues to outpace the supply of advanced skills.

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Intel Foundry gains new defense clients for 18A process

  Intel Foundry secures defense contracts with Trusted Semiconductor Solutions and Reliable MicroSystems, highlighting confidence in its 18A manufacturing process.

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Biden order gives CISA software supply chain 'teeth'

  The outgoing administration makes a Hail Mary attempt to salvage work it began in 2021 to require specific software supply chain security information from software suppliers.

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Lenovo to acquire Infinidat as part of growth strategy

  Infinidat's high-end storage offerings fill a Lenovo portfolio gap, but its acquisition winnows the number of storage vendors in the market, according to analysts.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cisco AI cybersecurity launch touts shadow AI defense

  Cisco wields the power of incumbency to weave AI security into existing cloud access management tools, including algorithmic validation testing on AI models.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  NetApp sells Spot business to Flexera for $100M

  Flexera acquires NetApp's cloud management business and products as the storage vendor focuses on a hybrid cloud and AI future.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  January Patch Tuesday resolves 3 Hyper-V zero-days

  The number of vulnerabilities corrected for January Patch Tuesday is one of the highest in recent memory and includes three Hyper-V vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Rethinking business continuity before the next big IT outage

  For one industry analyst, the most significant gap exposed by the CrowdStrike outage is between IT and business -- not Sec and Ops.

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Third-party VMware support for perpetual licenses growing

  VMware support for perpetual licensed software by Broadcom may be dwindling, but third-party vendors are stepping up to fill the void.

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  Pure Storage, Micron expand QLC NAND partnership

  Micron and Pure focus on hyperscalers and AI workloads by bringing the latest generation of QLC NAND to Pure's storage hardware and software.

• December 26, 2024 26 Dec'24

  HDDs to remain dominant storage footprint in 2025

  HDDs will retain their top storage spot in the new year despite advances in flash, analysts say.

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Platform teams draw on DataOps, MLOps to support GenAI

  GenAI calls for more rigorous data discipline than previous forms of analytics, but there are lessons platform teams can learn from existing approaches.

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  VMware by Broadcom changes to continue in 2025

  After a year of lawsuits, customer confusion and a restructuring of the core business, VMware by Broadcom has much to prove in 2025 to avoid future irrelevancy in the data center.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  GPU scarcity shifts focus to GPUaaS

  High GPU costs and scarcity drive users to GPUaaS for AI workloads. But businesses should assess needs before investing.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  AWS, Red Hat hybrid cloud wares court VMware converts

  Broadcom has softened some of its stances on VMware licensing and public cloud, but competitors stay poised to pounce on customers looking to defect.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Kioxia IPO seeks $800 million

  Kioxia is going public in an effort to better compete with major players in the flash market.

• December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24

  Broadcom, AT&T settle lawsuit over VMware support

  The companies have 'reached a settlement-in-principle,' but the telecom giant has indicated it's planning an exit from the virtualization platform.

• December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

  Last-minute geek gift ideas for the holidays

  Still searching for holiday gifts for geeks? Try these offbeat suggestions recommended by our panel of consultants, from the practical to the fantastic and everything in between.

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Devs get first look at next Google Gemini model

  Google Gemini 2.0 Flash makes its first appearance in Google developer tools, boasting updated multimodal features and fresh training for agentic workflows.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  December Patch Tuesday shuts down Windows zero-day

  Microsoft addresses 72 vulnerabilities, including 17 rated critical. Administrators should focus on patching the Windows OS to stop a flaw that has been exploited in the wild.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  StorMagic SvHCI 2.0 eases VM migration

  Six months after the initial release, StorMagic SvHCI is adding features to make it an attractive alternative to VMware at the edge.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Project Silica takes archive data through the looking glass

  As data grows, so does the need to store it. Microsoft's Project Silica is offering an archive alternative to tape with the promise of permanence.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Salesforce revamps Heroku PaaS for Kubernetes, .NET

  Thought Heroku was a 2010s artifact? Think again.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Amazon Q, Bedrock updates make case for cloud in agentic AI

  Amazon and its partners rev their engines in anticipation of agentic AI with updates that challenge the cost and quality claims of self-hosted infrastructure competitors.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Amazon S3 adds new capabilities for data lakes

  The cloud object storage standard gains capabilities at re:Invent, including metadata generation and a managed table service.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Arista simplifies switching to its campus network

  Arista says companies can switch to its campus network while holding on to legacy stacked switches.

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  45Drives adds to high-performance portfolio to embrace AI

  High performance is just one characteristic needed for AI storage; another is bulk storage for data not currently in use. 45Drives is offering customized offerings for both.

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  AWS to offer native VMware service with license portability

  AWS and Broadcom partner again to offer a new, native service within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud using existing VMware Cloud Foundation licenses.

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  HPC, supercomputing share stage with enterprise AI at SC24

  AI's effects on supercomputing helped shift the focus toward enterprise demands at SC24, as vendors -- including Dell and HPE -- showcased new offerings.

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Court asks AT&T, Broadcom to resolve VMware dispute

  A New York State Supreme Court judge gave AT&T and Broadcom until Dec. 13 to file a settlement, which attorneys say is forthcoming despite recent negotiation spats.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  WasmCloud makes strides with Wasm component model

  After a stall in 2023, this year's WASI Preview 2 pushed server-side WebAssembly forward, turning heads at companies such as American Express -- but it's far from mainstream use.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Rethinking 'secure by design' amid slippery SecOps shifts

  An expert discusses the fallout from a CISA report that raised doubts about the last decade's DevSecOps trend, and where the industry goes from here.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  IT pros revise pipelines for software supply chain security

  Software supply chain security has reached an awkward stage for enterprise IT, as platform and security pros grapple with adding upstream tools to existing workflows.

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Object storage, VM offerings emerge for HPE GreenLake

  HPE aims to attract new customers to its GreenLake ecosystem by launching standalone virtualization software. It also eyes AI ambitions with new object storage hardware.

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Microsoft launches Azure Local for Hybrid Cloud, edge uses

  Along with Azure Local, Microsoft has launched a migration tool for enterprises that want to ditch their VMware by Broadcom VMs.

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Microsoft Ignite sparks third-party storage, backup offers

  A flurry of storage and backup news has emerged around Microsoft Ignite, including from Dell, as it looks to support hybrid cloud customers and establish solid footing with Azure.

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Storj CEO Winegar: Distributed storage uptake big in 2025

  The new CEO looks to increase enterprise adoption of distributed storage with SOC 2 compliance and new capabilities.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  MinIO ups object storage ante for AI

  MinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst says the market has yet to decide.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  AI gateways, Kubernetes multi-tenancy loop in LLMOps

  There are many areas of IT infrastructure affected by the emergence of LLMOps; for each, there were products and projects rolled out this week at KubeCon.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Intel, Nvidia vie for dominance with agentic AI blueprints

  Rival sets of tools meant to better support AI apps on developer platforms have hit the market as an even bigger wave of change looms in agentic AI.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Latest version of Vdura Data Platform aimed at enterprise AI

  Vdura Data Platform version 11 focuses on a microservices-based architecture and composable hardware for performance and capacity, which includes utilizing HDDs.